From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: Eliot Moss <moss@ali-mail.cs.umass.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Issue on output when using javac or scalac under emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:35:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <731777b4-9ddb-5310-4bb1-8f26f594948d@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C066282-B6D1-4078-ADF3-00235AD606C6@roc.cs.umass.edu>
On 8/25/2020 11:51 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Agreed that / vs \ is sometimes no problem. I do know that Windows Java really wants ; and not : when giving multiple path names ... EM
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 10:50 PM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-08-25 18:36, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>> Dear Luc
>>> You should be aware that while Cygwin can invoke Java, the Windows Java still
>>> expects _Windows-style_ arguments, including Windows paths, etc.
>>>> For example, not a/b/c:d/e but 'a\b\c;d\e" for a path.
>>>
>>> Just because you're using Cygwin, the installed Java is not "magically"
>>> transported to the Linux world!
>>>
>>> You may also run into issues around line endings (CR/LF vs LF only, and so forth).
>>
>> Many Windows APIs and programs accept either path separator and in such cases
>> there are seldom issues as long as the paths are not too long e.g. try:
>>
>> $ /proc/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/icacls path/with/slash/delimiters
>>
>> and many programs, including editors and terminals, do a good job of adapting to
>> line endings, including mintty and less.
Apologies for the top-posting. Not sure my phone supports any other way, but if I end up wanting to
post from my phone, I will see what I can do! Eliot Moss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-26 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-25 22:40 Luc Henninger
2020-08-25 23:19 ` [cygwin] " Jason Pyeron
2020-08-26 2:38 ` Brian Inglis
2020-08-26 6:31 ` Luc Henninger
2020-08-26 9:17 ` Takashi Yano
2020-08-26 10:09 ` [cygwin] Issue on output when using javac or scalac under emacs solved Luc Henninger
2020-08-26 12:22 ` Eliot Moss
2020-08-26 12:16 ` [cygwin] Issue on output when using javac or scalac under emacs Eliot Moss
2020-08-26 0:36 ` Eliot Moss
2020-08-26 2:50 ` Brian Inglis
2020-08-26 3:51 ` Eliot Moss
2020-08-26 14:35 ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2020-08-26 6:49 ` Luc Henninger
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